Well it has certainly been a while since i posted. Makes not much difference, no one reads this but me but its kinda like a diary tho its not entirely private.
My last post was in Feb. We had been living in the RV for a couple months by then. We are still in the RV in the front yard. I should post a picture. We redid the house, painted all walls, woodwork, pulled carpet and painted floors, cleaned and polished and fixed every surface in the entire house. It looks like a new house. It is still old but so much more in fitting with its character.
We put it back on the market the end of Feb i think, can't remember the day, maybe the first of March. Didn't make our Feb l deadline we had set for. I will explain why later.
We have had many lookers, some say they are really impressed but have some reason why they don't make an offer. The last one the day before last seemed like a sure thing, but guess what, there is no sure thing. The realtor was upset but i just take it in stride. I have a strong belief in God and I feel he will sell the property when it should be sold and we should just relax and enjoy each moment and take the next step when it comes along.
We are getting along well in the camper and actually haven't had any fights and I have made cookies, and we have made special dinners and it works fine. The cats are adjusting tho they spend most of their time in the bedroom. The birds are happy where ever we are. The dogs have a ramp and seem to be adjusted.
Latest news. Trixie was put down the end of feb or first part of march. i can't even rememeber the day.It has been so devastating and I miss her terribly. I am doing better than I thought I would but it really doesn't seem like she isn't with me. The dogs did well but now Iris is acting bla so I am not sure that she isn't still now mourning Trixie. That was a big shocker.
We went to a International Breed show this month and Iris got 4 best of breed and a third place once in the herding group. Sallee got best of breed 4 times and 3 reserve in best of show and 1 best of show over some good competition. So now they are qualified for the national Championship titles. Annie got best puppy 3x and one best of show puppy once over a large class.
We lost the brakes in the RV while going to the show but leroy pulled it off into Camping World and we stayed there fri nite. We rented a van and drove to vancouver the next day for the show and stayed at a Choice hotel that nite, Sun we returned to the RV and stayed that nite and Mon leroy drove it to a workhorse place where they could fix the recalled brakes and we left it there for fixing. We drove back home and dropped off Annie and then with our cats, dogs, birds and all our junk moved into Joyce Box's basement. Annie is our 17 yr old granddau (honorary) that goes with us to show dogs and she shows Iris in breed for me. Leroy was able to go and pick up the RV on Wed. and he moved back in it that nite. The animals and i spent the last nite at joyces and came home thurs.
In the meantime we slept in her murphy bed in her basement. On tues nite the bed broke, after i had woke and turned on my back. ( I normally sleep hanging over the edge). The bed had let go on leroys side and the mechanism on my side and let go and the board broke into numerous pieces. The mechanism flew up and made holes in the wall. Had i been laying there i would have been killed or very seriously injured. We looked at the bed and saw all the pieces of board all around me but nothing hit me. God surely showed his protection to me in that moment as well as when we were driving with the brakes going out. God is Good and Ican't sing his praises enough. So that was an exciting week.
We are now back in the RV and nothing has happened for a while. Two three weeks ago i did cut the top of my right pointer finger first knuckle off with one of my new sharp knives. That is finally healing.
I had a pain stimulator put in my back in jan or feb, hell i can't remember that date either. It is like an internal tens that is inserted up to T8 with 4 electrodes or 8, can't remember that either, on each side of the spine. The electrodes go to different nerves. Then they can program the remote control to stimulate certain nerves and it is supposed to suppress the nerve interpretation so that the normal feelings can come to the surface without the pain being the first and only thing you feel. Well it is a slow progress kind of thing and it works overall. It had a long recovery so that you don't jar something loose. It takes about 6 months for the leads to scar tissue in. So until then there is a small amount of movement which gradually goes away. That movement makes it hard to decide where it is working at times. But I can now have Diesel in my lap without screaming in pain and I went to agility the other nite after a long time away and after one hour i felt like, hey, I am not ready to quit lets have another hour. So over all i think it is working.
Now if i can get her to do something for my neck and my right arm which is driving me crazy it is so bad. The rotator cuff is like a frayed rope and the rest of the pain is from my neck they tell me. So I don't know what they can do about that.
The RV now is having problems with the house battary. i think they are both dead as doornails. It cold at nite as the darn furnace needs the 12 volt. The rest of the stuff is run off 110. So hope the battary warrantee covers that. So far, we have been lucky with all things being covered.
It is a blessing that things are happening now while we still have a support area and system. Things will work out well.
We still don't know what we will do after the house sells but we will work it out then. We will probably still settle in washington but we need to travel the country and see things and people we haven't been able to see or do for so long. We will be financially tight but we will do it. I mean money doesn't mean happiness and if we can be financially secure so what if we have not much more for fancy stuff.
I am still working and I dread going. I have been off for 2 months for the surgery and i would love to never go back but need to find some $ for some things we need and want to do, so guess going back to work is the answer. I feel like I am to old to do nursing anymore and my experience with this agency and its people has broken my spirit. I feel like i am going out in a sad and dejected place. Its hard to remember that I have
had good years and done good things. The negative seems to stand out in my mind bigger than the good. Maybe we never get as much good reflection in our lives as negative. Or at least I think that is true for my life.
i will try to post some pictures that go with this post but they will be posted separately.